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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11: Sections 61-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Lyrical Ballads revolutionary according to Boorstin?
(a) It made poetry closer to lived experience.
(b) It refined poetic forms in their most perfect crystallization.
(c) It turned each individual into a microcosm of the universe.
(d) It attributed unheard-of political agency to each individual.

2. What are hieroglyphs?
(a) A pictorial language.
(b) Symbols of a dead language.
(c) An early alphabet.
(d) No one knows.

3. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?
(a) That it requires renunciation of the world.
(b) That it requires symbols of beauty.
(c) That it happens on its own.
(d) That it requires symbolic death, again and again.

4. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?
(a) 31 poetic narratives.
(b) A prolonged odyssey.
(c) 100 novellas.
(d) 24 books of narrative about war.

5. What did William Henry Fox Talbot discover?
(a) A process for retouching negatives.
(b) A process for capturing sharp contrasts between black and white on photographic film.
(c) A process for using silver nitrate to make copies.
(d) A process for capturing images on glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?

2. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?

3. What does Boorstin say was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?

4. Where does Boorstin say Monet's achievement was made?

5. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?

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